purveyor
pronunciation
How to pronounce purveyor in British English:
UK [pəˈveɪə(r)]
How to pronounce purveyor in American English:
US [pərˈveɪə(r)]
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- Noun:
- someone who supplies provisions (especially food)
Word Origin
- purveyor (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French porveor (13c.), agent noun from porveoir (see purvey).
Example
- 1. The kindle continues to buoy earnings at the online purveyor of books and just about everything else .
- 2. Facebook is not becoming a purveyor of media products , like apple or amazon.com .
- 3. In the broadest sense , the practice of one purveyor of goods doing trade with another is as old as commerce itself .
- 4. Chevron , an oil firm , brands itself as a purveyor of " human energy " , though presumably it does not really want you to travel by rickshaw .
- 5. Canada is far and away the biggest purveyor of crude to its southern neighbor , hitting a record 2.2 million barrels a day last year as its share of the u. s.market grew by 12 percent .